Anchorage Art on the Street

#1     'CAPTAIN JAMES COOK'      Artist: Derek Freeborn
  Location: Resolution Plaza (Third Avenue and L Street)
John Tweed bronze reproduction, with a view towards Point Mackenzie - binoculars available
#2      '3 SHIPS'      Artist:  Josef Princiotta
  Location: Captain Cook Parking Garage (K Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues)
Bronze cast of Capt. Cooks ships for 3 voyages (each on a different tack)
#3      'ALASKA WILDFLOWERS'      Artist: Gail Parsons
  Location: Inside - Snowden Building Lobby (820 W. Fourth Ave, right wall)
Towering 9 panel painting
#4     'WILDERNESS, WILDLANDS AND PEOPLE: A PARTNERSHIP FOR THE PLANET'     Artist: Rachelle Dowdy
  Location: Key Bank Plaza (601 W. Fifth Ave.)
Fanciful concrete & fiberglass figures
#5    'QUARTET'     Artist: William King
  Location: Sixth Avenue and G Street (kitty-corner to the performing arts center).
Aluminum & stainless steel figures 20' tall to serenade you
#6    'FIELD OF POPPIES'     Artist:  Nancy Taylor Stonington
  Location: Inside - Alaska Center for Performing Arts Lobby Carpet (F Street and Sixth Avenue)
Take time to enjoy the paintings, Native masks and carvings tucked here and there.
#7   'SKYWALKER'     Artist:  James Dault and Shala Dobson
  Location: Skybridge ( 'tween Egan Center - 555 W. Fifth Ave -  and the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts)
The tightrope walker is resin, bronze and bejeweled with Czech glass.
#8   'BEADED SKY CURTAIN'    Artist: Jeanne Leffingwell
  Location: Inside - Egan Center (555 W. Fifth Ave)
A glass bead curtain (5 million) that looks like silk and changes with light and air movement.
#9   '2 VOLCANO WOMAN'     Artist:   John Hoover
  Location: Inside - Egan Center Lobby
  The woman is surrounded by cormorants in this interpretation of how the Aleutians were populated.
#10   'ESKIMO SPIRIT CARVINGS'  Artist: Melvin Olanna
  Location: Inside - Egan Center Lobby
  Made of  black walnut and whale jawbone - four traditional Inupiaq masks surround a whaler
#11   'SPIRIT BRIDGE'  Artist: Roger Barr
  Location: Anchorage Visitors Bureau (F Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues)
  Dedicated to Alaskan aviator Robert Hartig, this piece soars upward and dissolves into  downtown.
 
© Artists Alaska 2007       design by Pam      July 2007